What's your latest tech purchase?

[advanced3]

Nice Craigslist find for cheap
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[Kapone33]

Why are they so expensive in the US? I can pick one up locally for just under $100 in any computer shop, some places even list them as low as $95.
The 2TB model goes for $190 here in most shops, some are a few bucks cheaper.
Edit: Sorry, just realised it was Canadian Dollars, so same price as here for the 1TB ones. The 2TB is about C$15 cheaper here though.

Let us know how you get on with them though, as I'm considering getting one to dump my games on as well. Still cagey about QLC though...
At least Intel gives a 5 year warranty, which hopefully means something.


It's lucky you have a Japanese ManualInside™

Ok Sorry I did not get to do the video as time became a factor. The Intel 660P drives are probably the cheapest NVME drives you can buy but are they worth the price of admission. I wanted to do a video but there were some challenges to that. I will list the pros and cons. We will do the bad before the good.

Cons

1. Once they were recognized in Windows it took 6.5 hours to format the RAID array.
2. Copying my Steam library from a 256GB NVME to this showed a high of 1.2 TB/s writes for about 10-15 seconds and the rest ran at or around 100 mb/s. I do believe even in RAID 0 the SLC cache is still only 25GB.
3. To get the best performance you have to install the firmware update and also Intel's RST software.
4. it is QLC NAND

Pros

1. The cost of these is exemplary, the 2TB is $269.99 CAD on Newegg. Amazon Prime Day deal in Canada, Sandisk 2TB Ultra SSD $279.99 as a reference point.
2. Games load just as fast as my Adata SX8200 non pro.
3. They actually run cool at around 33 C in idle.
4. 5 Year warranty is nothing to sneeze at.
5. The software is actually worth installing some companies have nothing.
You are getting way more than what you are paying for with this drive. I would say that if you have the ability I would pick one of these over an SSD of the same capacity everyday of the week. My next thing is to download a game from the Epic store and see how it performs against a TLC NVME drive in that regard. In all honesty though it is great for gaming using the Intel Rapid Storage program did see load times drop by about 10 to 15 seconds in TW3K. I am going to load TWWH2 onto the drive and see how turns go as that is 10 times the faction count vs 3K.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Ok Sorry I did not get to do the video as time became a factor. The Intel 660P drives are probably the cheapest NVME drives you can buy but are they worth the price of admission. I wanted to do a video but there were some challenges to that. I will list the pros and cons. We will do the bad before the good.

Cons

1. Once they were recognized in Windows it took 6.5 hours to format the RAID array.
2. Copying my Steam library from a 256GB NVME to this showed a high of 1.2 TB/s writes for about 10-15 seconds and the rest ran at or around 100 mb/s. I do believe even in RAID 0 the SLC cache is still only 25GB.
3. To get the best performance you have to install the firmware update and also Intel's RST software.
4. it is QLC NAND

Pros

1. The cost of these is exemplary, the 2TB is $269.99 CAD on Newegg. Amazon Prime Day deal in Canada, Sandisk 2TB Ultra SSD $279.99 as a reference point.
2. Games load just as fast as my Adata SX8200 non pro.
3. They actually run cool at around 33 C in idle.
4. 5 Year warranty is nothing to sneeze at.
5. The software is actually worth installing some companies have nothing.
You are getting way more than what you are paying for with this drive. I would say that if you have the ability I would pick one of these over an SSD of the same capacity everyday of the week. My next thing is to download a game from the Epic store and see how it performs against a TLC NVME drive in that regard. In all honesty though it is great for gaming using the Intel Rapid Storage program did see load times drop by about 10 to 15 seconds in TW3K. I am going to load TWWH2 onto the drive and see how turns go as that is 10 times the faction count vs 3K.

I was tempted to grab 2 of these but ending up going with 2x SX8200 Pro instead as they were only about $30 more for both. $115 each. vs $99. Gotta love those Newegg email deals.

 

[Kapone33]

I was tempted to grab 2 of these but ending up going with 2x SX8200 Pro instead as they were only about $30 more for both. $115 each. vs $99. Gotta love those Newegg email deals.

I know I have 2 of those as well but the 512GB versions. The best price for the 1TB is $209.99. They are faster but for some reason the Intel feels faster when gaming. I will give the Adata the nod when it comes to moving files though.

 

[Ahhzz]

Well, they're ordered but won't be in until Wed. Ordered a set of Jabra Elite 65t. I gotta have something in an earbud, as I spend a lot of time on the road, and my state passed a "hands-free" law last summer. The Anker Soundbuds picked up have absolutely nothing in the way of Active Noise Cancellation, and it drives me (and the Mrs.) crazy. I really wanted the Sennheiser (I love the sound from all theirs that I've owned), but the price was waaaay too freaking high on them. The old Jabra Icon I had was excellent at noise cancellation, so I'm hoping these follow that trend.

Edit updated with a pic

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I know I have 2 of those as well but the 512GB versions. The best price for the 1TB is $209.99. They are faster but for some reason the Intel feels faster when gaming. I will give the Adata the nod when it comes to moving files though.

Wow CAD pricing sure does suck.

I haven't noticed a difference from my 960 Evo in my main system they seem to perform around the same. Although my 3x 860 evo also perform similarly for gaming.

 

[Kapone33]

Wow CAD pricing sure does suck.

I haven't noticed a difference from my 960 Evo in my main system they seem to perform around the same. Although my 3x 860 evo also perform similarly for gaming.

You better believe it I could use so many examples where we get hosed, the Samsung 960EVO is $626 CAD for the 1TB on Amazon. That is a $60 US premium vs the same drive from Amazon.com

 

[remixedcat]

Switched ISPs... Suddenstink was so bad here we had ppl literally picketing at thier "store" on 7th st.

So went with the local cable company hope they're better.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I've had this pc up for 4 days and already upgraded the cooling.....

 

[GamerGuy]

Some parts of my upcoming build have arrived, a 2TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD (for games) and 2 pairs of XPG Spectrix D60G DDR4 3200 RAM.

 

[GamerGuy]

Collected my CPU yesterday, and NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD was delivered yesterday as well.

 

[sam_86314]

Got this Radeon HD 7750 for $25 from an eBay auction, slightly cheaper than these cards normally go for. I got it for my Optiplex 980.

It came with the original box and nearly all of it's original accessories. Unfortunately, it has GDDR3 instead of GDDR5, but it's still over twice as powerful as the Quadro I had in this system before it.

Based on my findings while running 3DMark, I've come to the conclusion that this card is about 1/10th as powerful as my GTX 1070. It should run older games (2013 and older) at medium to high settings, and newer games should run on low.

Once low profile GTX 1050s or RX 560s reach reasonable prices, I might pick one of those up.

 

[GreiverBlade]

you repair a phone once ... they swarm you ...

oh, well...

NEEEXT!

like a tin can .... more annoying tho ... the size of the screw is .... *GRMBLFZXTHURRRRDUUURRR*


transferring the face cam, face ID sensor, earpiece, home button and EMI shield packing tape is protecting my desk from shards ... soooo valorous (49cts a 50m roll, valorous indeed)



and now we wait till we get a AC adaptor to check if all works ... (no iDevice wall wart at home nor cable ... yuck, no maaam, no thanks .... but i still repair them)


iFixit kit is really great ...

 

[BiggieShady]

Got myself shiny new Huawei P30 Pro... I'm from the future now
It can't take a picture of itself yet, therefore stock photo

 

[cucker tarlson]

sold my 1080ti trio for 2070 super trio.Cost me zilch,I'm getting a new card with same performance,lower power draw,lower noise and better thermals along with 2 games.Should get better money for it when I decide to get a 7nm nvidia card in the future too.Win-win.Couldn't resist after reading W1zzard'ss review.69 degrees at 33dba for the 1080ti trio vs 67 degrees at 28dba on 2070 super trio.This is pretty insane,33 dba was already super quiet on 1080ti.

Got a m9peY 512gb as well,the one with rgb heatsink.Saw it at 860 evo price and pulled the trigger right away.

 

[robot zombie]

Nice Craigslist find for cheap
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That setup is a classic at this point. Still rockin a Modi 2 Uber and Vali 2 over here. Schiit really kills it on those little entry-level dacs and amps. Legit good sound there! Shame to ever get rid of a setup like that. I'd think there'd always be a place for it somewhere. Thier loss, I suppose!

 

[Apocalypsee]

Bought second hand HP 15-BA010AX for RM700 (~USD170). Not bad of a deal, comes with
15.6" 1366x768 LCD,
A10-9600P,
4GB DDR4,
dedicated GPU R7 M440 2GB DDR3,
500GB 5400rpm HDD.
Can't complain for the price. Need another stick of RAM for dual channel goodness.
I've checked thoroughly, it can be upgraded to 1080p display (using eDP connection), RAM is dual channle capable so the iGPU is faster than dGPU when both RAM slots are populated.

 

[Frick]

Quad core!

Yeah yeah pretty pathetic, but the the CPU was like €55 and will be a (smallish) upgrade from my current Haswell i3 (which I'm giving away) and this motherboard supports all Zen2 CPU's so vOv. The €30 Fractal Design Kraft 400W PSU is on its way (which to my knowledge is not 80+ certified nor Aris certified, living on the edge freestyling at gunpoint in the lights of the dying world, or in the flames of the burning electrical gremlings, whichever comes first). Total cost will be <€250. Now I shall just be on the lookout for a cheap Ryzen 1600/2600 and a used >= GTX970 and I'm set. Maybe finally I can beat my dad in solitare, so that he may love me.

 

[biffzinker]

Quad core!

Yeah yeah pretty pathetic, but the the CPU was like €55

It's not that bad especially if you overclock. You might get lucky in the silicon lottery, and have a 4 GHz overclocker. Still beats an FX, and it has Quad core FPUs.

 

[newtekie1]

It's not that bad especially if you overclock. You might get lucky in the silicon lottery, and have a 4 GHz overclocker. Still beats an FX, and it has Quad core FPUs.

This is true. The 1200 is, AFAIK, the same CPU that is in the 2200G APU but with twice the cache and slightly lower clock speeds(which can be raised with overclocking).

 

[ASOT]

Great deal and nice performance

 

[cucker tarlson]

2070 super gaming x trio
plextor m9peY 512gb

 

[biffzinker]

Guess what Bestbuy has in stock besides thermal paste?


Ryzen 5 3600

 

[btarunr]

PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK

 

[Lorec]

PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK PLEASE DONT SUCK

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gotta love that ketchup and mustard cables there, btarunr!
testing new card vs cpu bottleneck?